Art Appreciation
Test 4
1. Renaissance is a French term that means rebirth.
A) True B) False
2. Art historians recognize the death of ______ as the end of the Renaissance.
A) DA Vinci B) Raphael C) Michelangelo C) Donatello
3. Leonardo da Vinci thought of himself as a ______ first and his other artistic skills second.
A) painter/sculptor B) architect C) scientist D) mathematician
4. Both Leonardo and Michelangelo could be considered a polymath.
A) TRUE B) FALSE
5. Linear perspective was developed by this Renaissance architect and sculptor.
A) Botticelli B) Brunelleschi C) Bernini D) Bruegel
6. Leonardo da Vinci is known for the sfumato or ______ appearance in the atmospheric quality of his
paintings' landscaped backgrounds.
A) dark B) buon fresco C) light to dark D) smoky
7. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with being the first person to do true human anatomical dissection.
A) TRUE B) FALSE
8. These three, early Renaissance artists received master status commissions by the time they were
25 years of age...one artist for his freestanding sculptures that adorns San Michele in Florence,
owing much too Classical and Hellenistic influence ... another for his sculpture that incorporated
architecture and the figure on the same scale using linear perspective ... and yet another, a
painter who used linear perspective, for the first time, with his paintings.
A) Donatello, Masaccio, and Durer B) Donatello, Masaccio, and Ghiberti
C) Donatello, Leonardo, and Van Eyck D) Ghiberti, Michelangelo, Masaccio
9. The largest painting ever completed by an artist of the Renaissance, the Sistine ceiling, was created by ______.
A) Leonardo da Vinci B) Masaccio C) Michelangelo D) Botticelli
10. The undisputed geniuses of the Renaissance are ______.
A) Leonardo da Vinci and Donatello B) Botticelli and Masaccio
C) Brunelleschi and Ghiberti D) da Vinci and Michelangelo
11. Hidden in the painting "Primavera" by Botticelli is an image that reveals he is ______.
A) doing human anatomical dissection B) planning a revolt in the Republic of Florence
C) using the same male model for all the figures in the painting D) mentally ill
12. The first painting that depicted a nude pagan goddess since Classical Antiquity was ______. It was painted by ______.
A) The Tribute Money. Ghiberti. B) The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli.
C) The Trinity. Masaccio. D) The Last Judgement. Michelangelo.
13. Brunelleschi and Donatello were amateur archeologist during the early Renaissance and searched for art works of
Greek and Roman Classical Antiquity.
A) TRUE B) FALSE